Metal post for wire fences



(NoM0 d1teL) V L. GODDU.

METAL POST FOR WIRE FENCES. No; 295,918; Patented'Apr. -1-, 18 84.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

LOUIS GODDU, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

METAL POST FOR WIRE'FENCE'S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,918, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed April 4, 1883. (N model.) I

To alfiwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS GODDU, of Winchester, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Metal Posts for Wire Fences, of which the part is composed of a thin plate having a flute or trough, or a series of flutes or short troughs, and of one or more backwardly-extended ribs or webs, as will be described. The fluted part referred to is slotted or cut through transversely at suitable intervals to receive the fence-wire, and keep it from sagging, or from being lifted where connected with the post, and the wire is retained in the notch in the said flute by means of a pin placed in the flute and in front of the wire and at right angles to the slot in the flute, there being at each slotted part'of the flute a rest for the lower end of the wire locking or holding pin.

Figure 1 represents in rear side elevation a cast-metal post embodying my invention, with fence-wires in place; Fig. 2, a front View thereof, showing how the cast-metal post may be .used for a fence partly of wood, if desired;

Fig. 3, a section thereof on the dotted line, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a'detail showing a portion of the front side of thepostand a wire therein;

Figs. 5 and 6, a front view and section of a modification thereof.

The post is composed of a thin cast-metal plate, a a, tapered from its widest point 3to the top 2 of the post, and from the said point 3 to the bottom 4 of the post. The plate a, at or near its center, is cast with a concavity or flute, b, of greater or less length, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, and preferably semicircular, and at suitable intervals, according to the distance it is desired to separate thewires g.

The said fluted part is slotted transversely, as at N, to form a notch for the reception of the wire 9. The flute bis sufficiently deep to give to each of these notches a shoulder below and above the said wire and prevent it from sagging or being lifted at the post. The notch b is deep enough to permit the introductionbetween the wire and wall of the curved or fluted part of the post of a wire locking-pin, e, and in the concaved portion of the said flute, just below each notch If, I have placed :a rest, f, for the lower end of the said locking-pin. At the rear side of the plate a a is a cast-metal strengthening rib or web, 0.

Instead of making the part a of the post straight, as in Fig. 3, it may be waved in crosssection, as in Fig. 6, and one or two narrower ribs or webs, 0, may be employed at the rear side.

i The front side of the post is shown provided with horizontal supports in a, which may be used to sustain the ends of wooden railso, which may be attached to the part a of the post by suitable screws, 7', extended through them into holes made in the said post.

The rails 0 may have pickets t nailed to them, as shown by dotted lines. The projection or enlargement w strengthens the post opposite the points where the flutes are slotted.

I claim- 1. The post a, having the notched flute or flutes b, rests f, and rib c, in combination with the wires g'and pins 0, for retaining the wires in the notched post, substantially as shown and described.

2. A post composed of the part a a, the notched wire-receiving flute, and the backwardly 4 extended rib a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS GODDU. Witnesses: I

G. W. GREGORY, BERNIOE J. NoYEs. 

